Silverlight 5 Timeline And Lots of Questions

Yesterday Microsoft announced the timeline for Silverlight 5 in 2011 at the Silverlight FireStarter event. Silverlight 5 was the main subject of Scott Guthrie’s keynote where Microsoft demoed many of the coming new features and capabilities. Silverlight 5 will be in beta the first half of 2011 and ship early in the second half of 2011.

Another developer, Bruno asked for a high precision timer to be included in release 5.0. While Dan Devine lamented the 6 month wait for the release version. Many developers were asking for Windows Phone 7 support and even further, cross-platform support down to the device level, most notably for Android.

Steven DeRoo fired several questions which were on more minds than his own:

“Will Silverlight have to conquer HMTL5? …. Which other OS will be supported? …. Will Silverlight be the next ActiveX? …. Should companies consider Silverlight …. in favor of HTML5?”

Hopefully as more information is released and the beta is released to the public, many of the questions will become answered. The Silverlight 5 beta will be available sometime early in 2011 and more information will soon be available at the Microsoft Silverlight site.

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